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#1 2018-06-02 05:30:26
- eleius
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[solved] pacman "force" and "overwrite" options
I noticed using pacman's --force option results in the message:
warning: option --force is deprecated; use --overwrite instead
So I tried replacing the option and the result is:
pacman --overwrite -S MYPACKAGE
error: invalid option '--overwrite'
pacman -S --overwrite MYPACKAGE
error: no targets specified
man pacman says overwrite requires a <glob> argument - what is that?
The Arch Wiki still advises to use --force btw (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman)
Can you help me?
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#2 2018-06-02 05:31:52
- Scimmia
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Re: [solved] pacman "force" and "overwrite" options
Read the man page, figure out what --overwrite is.
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#3 2018-06-02 06:06:51
- eleius
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Re: [solved] pacman "force" and "overwrite" options
Very useful, thanks so much.
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#4 2018-06-02 06:15:03
- jasonwryan
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Re: [solved] pacman "force" and "overwrite" options
Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.
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#5 2018-06-02 06:23:08
- eleius
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Re: [solved] pacman "force" and "overwrite" options
I was being sarcastic. I have obviously already read the man page as I mentioned it in my question. So much for the "newbie corner".
Nevermind, feel free to delete my question.
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#6 2018-06-02 06:31:00
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Re: [solved] pacman "force" and "overwrite" options
See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=237614
A glob is just a pattern for the shell; eg., /etc/file*
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#7 2021-07-07 13:13:36
- sixtyfive
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Re: [solved] pacman "force" and "overwrite" options
After google brought me here first, where neither the sarcasm nor the answers to it were helpful, I found [this StackExchange answer](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/549419/131503) next. The solution is:
```
sudo pacman -S --overwrite \* <package_name>
```
(Edit: 2021 called to said that this forum really needs to learn about Markdown)
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#8 2021-07-07 13:35:20
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Re: [solved] pacman "force" and "overwrite" options
BBCode is a thing, it's under every post box, necrobumping a solved thread for what amounts to be sub-optimal advice (there's a reason --overwrite replaced --force and misusing --overwrite to do the same as a --force) is generally not a good idea.
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … ro-bumping
Closing.
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